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A land purchase qualifies as a grab when it entails a transfer of at least 500 acres to be converted from smallholder production, collective use or ecosystem services to commercial activity. Land grabs may provide abstract economic benefit--increasing GDP, for instance

One of the problems with TI's methodology is that it measures people's perceptions of corruption, rather than corruption itself. People who live in Britain may not normally think of their country as being particularly corrupt, but that may be because corruption is something that they have been ta…

This Manichean view fits nicely with our already existing assumptions

[...] The mobility of liquid capital is too perfect, while that of labour and fixed capital is not perfect enough.